Author Archives: Bob Sutor

Mobile devices: Five predictions for 2012 | Mobile – CNET News “Just as 2011 saw the rise in dominance of Android, Apple basically opening fire on every Android device through lawsuits, and a flood of tablets and 4G devices, 2012 … Continue reading →

Open Letter to the Open Document Format Ecosystem : The Apache Software Foundation Blog “Only the Apache Software Foundation can make releases of software that bear our trademarks. The Apache OpenOffice (Incubating) project has tentatively identified the first quarter of … Continue reading →

Explaining the API Revolution to your CEO – Forbes “One of the most striking findings was how often API programs were started in secret, nurtured by the true believers in a clandestine way, slipped into production, and then brought to … Continue reading →

Android Will Lose the Tablet Race: 10 Reasons Why – Mobile and Wireless – News & Reviews – eWeek.com “The tablet market hasn’t been too friendly to Google’s Android operating system. Over the last year, consumers have been increasingly turning … Continue reading →

SMS flaw reportedly found in Windows Phone 7.5 | Security – CNET News “A malicious SMS sent to a Windows Phone 7.5 device will force it to reboot and lock down the messaging hub (see video below). WinRumors said tests … Continue reading →

Amazon’s Trojan Horse: Don’t Underestimate The Kindle Fire | TechCrunch “But there’s another narrative that says this is a secret success. Analysts estimate that Amazon will sell 5 million of the devices this quarter, a little under half the iPads … Continue reading →

HP: WebOS, Enyo app framework goes open source | ZDNet “Company officials told ZDNet that open sourcing WebOS was the best move after the company reviewed the various possibilities for the mobile operating system. There are two reads on the … Continue reading →

How to Conserve Battery Life on Your iPhone ~ LockerGnome “It’s well-known that, with the release of iOS 5, battery life has been less than exemplary. I’ve been slammed with it, too, and am feeling the repercussions when I’m only … Continue reading →

Win 8 app store revealed: more money for devs, beta in late February “In San Francisco today, Microsoft started talking up the Windows Store, the online marketplace for Metro-style Windows 8 applications. With Apple’s Mac App Store and iTunes Store … Continue reading →

Motorola Xoom 2 review — Engadget “So what now? Well, Motorola has recast its Xoom: it’s made it faster, slimmer and lighter. They’ve beefed up the disappointing screen found on the original, it’s now a Gorilla Glass-coated IPS screen that promises … Continue reading →

Customer-Created Design: Virtual reality and realtime design enables seniors to design their own community spaces | ARCH Virtual “There’s a fantastic snippet in this video, about 2 minutes and 58 seconds in, that does a great job of capturing the … Continue reading →

IBM Systems Magazine – The iPad Meets the Mainframe “Mobile devices like smartphones and tablets deliver great graphics capability and processing to their users. Such devices enable access to applications that was previously unthinkable on mobile equipment, with terminal emulation … Continue reading →

Developer Segmentation: Tell Me What You Think. Or How the Web “Killed” the Professional Developer – James Governor’s Monkchips “I have been giving a fair bit of thought lately to app developer segmentation. Considering how much money is poured into … Continue reading →

12 Things to Do After You’ve Written a New Blog Post | Content Marketing Post “You’ve just finished writing a great new blog post. You’re excited that you’ve shared your ideas and expertise with the world. But what should you … Continue reading →

11 programming trends to watch | Application Development – InfoWorld “From JavaScript everywhere to everything on the JVM, the times and the tools are a-changing. So too is the way programmers work, thanks to the rise of frameworks and walled … Continue reading →

IBM Software events – Introduction to WebSphere Application Server V8 Part 1: Speed delivery of new applications “The pace of business is unrelenting and it falls to developers to deliver new applications and services as quickly as possible. In this … Continue reading →

Retailers Enliven Catalog Offerings Through Apps – NYTimes.com “Just 8 percent of online shoppers own tablet devices, and retailers, on average, have spent an anemic $14,000 on tablet apps, according to Forrester Research. But 60 percent of tablet owners use … Continue reading →

Mobile Deals Aimed at Black Friday Shoppers Stuck in Line – NYTimes.com “As retailers battle to draw customers into their stores on Black Friday, online merchants are plotting a cunning ambush — offering an arsenal of mobile-only deals intended to … Continue reading →

At last: The results. (Tech Trends Report) “In July, IBM developerWorks conducted a survey of over 4,000 IT professionals, faculty members and students from among the developerWorks community. We asked respondents about their view of the future of technology, including … Continue reading →

Hey Mobile, Thanks for All the APIs “There are a number of factors coming together to fuel the growth of APIs. Without a doubt, one is the corresponding growth of mobile devices and the distribution of services across multiple platforms. … Continue reading →

Examining Telecommuting the Scientific Way | Surprising Science “After a few weeks of the experiment, it was clear that the telecommuters were performing better than their counterparts in the office. They took more calls (it was quieter and there were … Continue reading →

Google reminds up App Inventor shutting down at end of year, download your projects now | Android Central “Google overnight sent out e-mails reminding users of its expiring App Inventor that it will no longer support the project on Dec. … Continue reading →

Will there be a Silverlight 6 (and does it matter)? | ZDNet “Microsoft is poised to release to manufacturing Silverlight 5. There’s word from some of my contacts that this might be the last major release of Silverlight, but Microsoft … Continue reading →

Amazon’s Kindle Reader covers browser bases, adds Firefox | ZDNet “Amazon’s Reader HTML5 experiment is worth watching given that many observers ultimately expected the Web to replace mobile apps at some point. However, that replacement cycle could take years, but … Continue reading →

Appcelerator Raises $15 Million Series C Round | TechCrunch “Appcelerator, makers of the popular mobile cloud development platform Titanium, has raised $15 million in Series C funding in a round led by Mayfield Fund, Translink Capital and Red Hat. Existing … Continue reading →

Will HTML5 replace native apps? It might: here’s how to figure out when | Technology | guardian.co.uk “The debate about using ‘native web’ applications against ‘native applications’ has forgotten about one important element in the process – the user” tags: … Continue reading →

Eclipse Celebrates 10 Years of Innovation “In the month of November, the Eclipse community is celebrating 10 years since the start of the Eclipse open source project. In November 2001, the Eclipse IDE and platform were first made available under … Continue reading →

Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux will battle for mobile developers | Mobile Technology – InfoWorld “But at mobile application developer Big Nerd Ranch, President Aaron Hillegass has seen mobile Linux efforts before and stressed the need for a viable ecosystem. “It isn’t … Continue reading →

Have your HTML5 and native app too | Mobile Technology – InfoWorld “A new browser and set of APIs and code libraries for iOS and Android devices promise HTML5 apps that tap into native capabilities” tags: html native mobile Appcelerator … Continue reading →

Codify lets you build iPad apps–on your iPad | Macworld “Software developers who want to create games and simulations on their iPad have a new option available, thanks in part to loosened restrictions in the App Store. Sharing those creations, … Continue reading →

IBM Beats Oracle, Microsoft With Big Data Leap – Software – Information Management – Informationweek “The big data news kicked off of this week’s IBM Information OnDemand (IOD) conference in Las Vegas, where the company also announced a new iPad … Continue reading →

Are Windows PCs already falling to smartphones and tablets? | ZDNet “Over at ZDNet’s sister site, CNet, they recently reported on 15-years of Download.com. I expected this to be little more than a nice historical walk down a popular site’s … Continue reading →

Even the BlackBerry faithful are abandoning RIM | Mobile Technology – InfoWorld “The BlackBerry may not be dead, but it’s dying. New research from Enterprise Management Associates says that 30 percent of BlackBerry users in companies with more than 10,000 … Continue reading →

Google confirms Android 4.0 ICS is open source | thinq_ “Google has confirmed that the source code for Android 4.0 ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ will be made public, after it refused to release the code for its predecessor ‘Honeycomb.’” tags: android … Continue reading →

Maqetta “Maqetta is an open source project that provides WYSIWYG visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces. The Maqetta application itself is authored in HTML, and therefore runs in the browser without requiring additional plugins or downloads.” tags: HTML5 maqetta Posted … Continue reading →

Why Banks Must Support All Mobile Platforms and Why HTML5 Matters – American Banker Article “The challenge of developing and maintaining mobile banking applications that will run on an iPhone, an Android phone, a BlackBerry or a Windows phone, as … Continue reading →

Apple iOS 5 review: Modest, but definitely worthwhile | iPhone Atlas – CNET Reviews “Though iOS 5 is not as drastic of an upgrade as we saw with iOS 4 in June 2010, it does offer some much-needed and exciting … Continue reading →

How to check on your Internet connection | ZDNet “If there’s someone on the planet who hasn’t had trouble with their Internet connection at one time or the other I don’t know who it is. So, if you’re having trouble … Continue reading →

Ubuntu 11.10 will support arm processors to take on red hat – The Inquirer “LINUX VENDOR Canonical has said that Ubuntu 11.10 will be the first to support both x86 and ARM architectures. Canonical’s popular Ubuntu Linux distribution will get its … Continue reading →

Introducing Diigo Browser (aka iChromy) Like Chrome, Diigo Browser is fast. Multiple tab browsers on iPad are often slow or easy to crash due to the memory issue. Diigo Browser reloads pages dynamically and smartly, so it feels fast even with multiple … Continue reading →

Princeton goes open access to stop staff handing all copyright to journals – unless waiver granted “Prestigious US academic institution Princeton University will prevent researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers, except in certain cases where … Continue reading →

Adobe: We Love Flash and HTML5 Equally – Application Development – News & Reviews – eWeek.com “Adobe has also extended existing tools like Adobe Dreamweaver and Flash Professional to bring the next generation of Web standards to designers and developers … Continue reading →

PhoneGap Applies to Apache Software Foundation, Contemplates Name Change “Popular open source mobile development framework “wrapper” PhoneGap has applied for consideration to the Apache Software Foundation and contemplating a name change. In a message in PhoneGap’s Google Groups development page, … Continue reading →

New NFC Spec Makes It Easier To Swap Contacts, Save Data To Phones | TechCrunch “Mobile users with NFC-enabled devices will no longer need a special application in order to exchange contact details or other types of data between their … Continue reading →

Is Junk Food Really Cheaper? – NYTimes.com “THE “fact” that junk food is cheaper than real food has become a reflexive part of how we explain why so many Americans are overweight, particularly those with lower incomes. I frequently read … Continue reading →

Microsoft confirms that UEFI ‘secure boot’ might lock out Linux and older versions of Windows from new PCs | ZDNet “A few days ago, Red Hat developer Matthew Garrett raised the possibility that Linux (not to mention earlier versions of … Continue reading →

2nd UPDATE: Samsung To Open Bada To External Developers – WSJ.com “Samsung “is planning to make Bada software an open source platform next year,” a person familiar with the situation said, adding the South Korean company has no plans to … Continue reading →

Online ID Verification Plan Carries Risks – NYTimes.com “Industry experts expect that each authentication technology would rely on at least two different ID confirmation methods. Those might include embedding an encryption chip in people’s phones, issuing smart cards or using … Continue reading →

Open sourcing the post-Irene Vermont flood relief effort “Two weeks ago, in the wake of tropical storm Irene’s devastating flooding in Vermont’s Mad River Valley, local residents organized a MRV Flood Relief initiative. What began as a self-organized volunteer effort … Continue reading →

Google Watch – Android Vs. iPhone – There’s Room for More Than Apple, Google in Mobile “The firm’s prediction is that by 2015 more U.S. Internet users will access the Internet through mobile devices than through PCs or other wireline … Continue reading →

Kaplan brings professional development to the mobile – ComputerworldUK.com “After downloading the Kaplan Mobile application users log-in with their Kaplan account and are shown relevant course materials available for download. Kaplan customers are able to sync their accounts with up … Continue reading →

Amazon Cloud SDKs for Android, IOS Exit Beta Testing | PCWorld Business Center “Using the SDKs developers can make API (application programming interface) requests directly from a mobile application to Amazon’s Web Services. Developers can integrate their applications with a … Continue reading →

New IDC Study Outlines Strategies and Opportunities in Mobile Application Development Life-cycle Services – MarketWatch “New research from International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that service providers are reporting increasing enterprise and ISV activity in establishing mobile initiatives for a variety … Continue reading →

IBM WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit: Overview “The IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Migration Toolkit is a suite of tools and knowledge collections that enables your organization to quickly and cost-effectively migrate to WebSphere Application Server V7 or V8, whether from … Continue reading →

Java creator quits Google, develops robot comms » telecoms.com – telecoms industry news, analysis and opinion “James Gosling, the creator of the Java programming language, has quit Google after only five months at the firm, and has joined a startup … Continue reading →

HTML5 Mobile App Framework PhoneGap Adds Facebook Connect Plugin | TechCrunch “Nitobi, creators of the HTML5-based mobile app framework PhoneGap, have today launched the PhoneGap Facebook Connect plugin. The addition of the plugin means that developers building apps using Web … Continue reading →

Idevnews | Evans Data Finds Three-Fourths of Enterprises Focus on Mobile Apps “Mobile app development is taking off in all directions, according to Evans Data Corp.’s Mobile Development Survey released this month. The survey found nearly three-fourths of enterprise devs … Continue reading →

Android developers run afoul of source licences | TechCentral.ie “While Google’s Android is offered under the Apache and GPL licences, the mobile operating system has components referencing 19 open source licences overall, Black Duck Software executive Peter Vescuso told an … Continue reading →